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BISHOP, Colin Lisle
Service Number: | 418499 |
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Enlisted: | 22 May 1942, Melbourne, Victoria |
Last Rank: | Sergeant |
Last Unit: | Royal Canadian Air Force Training Units |
Born: | Albury, New South Wales, 5 September 1923 |
Home Town: | Albury, Albury Municipality, New South Wales |
Schooling: | Corowa High School and Albury Grammar School |
Occupation: | Junior clerk |
Died: | Accidental (training air crash), Patricia Bay, British Columbia, Canada, 27 May 1943, aged 19 years |
Cemetery: |
Royal Oak Burial Park, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lost Airmen of the Empire, Patricia Bay, Canada |
World War 2 Service
22 May 1942: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman 2 (WW2), 418499, Melbourne, Victoria | |
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27 May 1943: | Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 418499, Royal Canadian Air Force Training Units, Empire Air Training Scheme, 32 Operational Training Unit (RCAF Patricia Bay) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Edwards
Hampden AN142 crashed at Patricia Bay while making an emergency landing - (Information sourced by Doug Rollins)
"...the Hampden Bomber had a known design flaw - the twin rudders were too small and if the pilot tried to bank at slow speed it would “yaw”, slide sideways and often not recover." - Peter Brand
Other Crew members who perished in that accident;
422565 Sgt. Reginald John HUGHES (/explore/people/633145) - RAAF of Young, New South Wales
420864 P/O Charles John DAVIS (/explore/people/625415) - RAAF of Bondi, New South Wales
1577871 Sgt. Alan Robert MARLOW - RAF of Kettering, Northamptonshire
Colin Lisle Bishop was the son of 3508 Pte. Harry Lisle Bishop (/explore/people/279078) (who served in the 60th Infantry Battalion in WW1 and on home service throughout WW2) and Mabel Isabel of Albury, New South Wales